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She’s made it!! My friend Gill Castle from Alnwick has become the first person in the world with a stoma to swim the English Channel. She is an amazing inspirational woman and I am thrilled for her!

A woman has become the first person with a stoma to swim solo across the English Channel. Gill Castle spoke to #BBCBreakfast after she managed the swim from Dover to France in just under 14 hours bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

End of an era

Proud to have worked on this special three part podcast to mark a month after the Sycamore Gap tree was cut down. Exclusively features Hairy Bikers’ Si King, Robin Hood director Kevin Reynolds & more. Brilliantly produced by Jane Downs & Laura Marshall bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g…

Eeeh! Thrilled to be part of the (now Aria-nominated) team who made The Stoma Swimmer BBC Sounds series… the remarkable story of channel swimmer Gill Castle 🥰 Rik Martin Jo Lonsdale

⚠️Children are targeted by WhatsApp groups full of self-harm, dead body photos, sex images & racism. Schools initially warned parents about a group promoting self-harm, but we’ve found others adding hundreds of kids. The PM says our findings are “awful” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"It's about stories, everything's about stories. We're all human beings and we all have stories." - BBC Radio 4 on winning GOLD. #UKARIAS

Congratulations @7digitalCreativ and BBC Radio 2 🥳 #UKARIAS

These two were a pleasure to host in the press room ☺️ Huge congratulations to all at BBC Sport Tyne & Wear! #UKARIAS

The Stoma Swimmer is the The Radio Academy Impact Award winner! 🏆🤩 Congratulations to Gill Castle and our incredible BBC Radio Newcastle producers who brought this remarkable journey to the surface! 🏊‍♀️ Jane Downs | Jo Lonsdale

Illegal slimming injections have been to blame for dozens of hospitalisations of people in the North East - our latest investigation: Slimming jabs: 'I thought my body was shutting down' bbc.com/news/articles/…

Got round to watching this after talking about it all morning on the news…. Incredible documentary on BBC iPlayer now by Philippa Goymer Jane Downs 🤯🤯🤯🤯

'I promised my father the world would hear our song' bbc.in/3DXZMpZ

Caring for an elderly parent can be incredibly tough on an adult child, thanks to Jane Downs for bringing me in on her story - such an important issue bbc.com/news/articles/…

28 people with botulism in NE England in the last few weeks from fake Botox-type injections. Context: NHS England saw 6 cases in 2023-24 for the whole country. The hospital where Nicola (⬇️) was treated typically sees 0 cases in a year. MORE: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Hairy Biker Si King documents the global outrage that followed the felling of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree. Listen to Felled: The Sycamore Gap Story on BBC Sounds 🔉 bbc.in/3TCQ6pm

"I've put off coming to see it, because I didn't want to." Si King was so angry about the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree he couldn't bring himself to visit the site again, until now - bbc.in/40WFXYq

Episode 6 of our podcast, Felled, is now live on BBC Sounds. In it, we document the bizarre story that unfolded after the Sycamore Gap tree was discovered cut down in 2023 and hear from the people who found themselves at the centre of it. Listen here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…